Book chapter
France
A New Companion to Chaucer, pp.167-184
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
04/10/2019
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/120549
Abstract
In England throughout Chaucer's lifetime, both Anglo‐French and English were spoken, and France provided the dominant intellectual model. During Chaucer's youth, French poets were already prominent at the court of Edward III (r. 1327–1377); the presence in London of French writers accompanying the captive king Jean after the Battle of Poitiers (1356) certainly amplified its renown. Guillaume de Machaut – and, to a lesser extent, Jean Froissart – most greatly influenced Chaucer's early poetic development. Chaucer also travelled in France as soldier and envoy, and the cross‐Channel diplomatic milieu, which included the poet Oton de Grandson, may explain Chaucer's precocious awareness of crucial Italian texts.
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- Title
- France
- Creators
- Michael Hanly
- Contributors
- Peter Brown (Editor)
- Publication Details
- A New Companion to Chaucer, pp.167-184
- Academic Unit
- English, Department of
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; Chichester, UK
- Number of pages
- 18
- Identifiers
- 99900619658301842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter